Short Stories and Poems: Pushkin: The Undertaker; Queen of Spades; The Duel; Ruslan and Ludmila...et.al. Gogol: Overcoat Chekhov: The Bet; The Grasshopper; The Darling
World Literature and Connections Isolation/Social Awareness and Responsibility/Boundaries Mindfulness and Vantage Points What kind of behaviors can exist under the surface of civilized and cultured politeness?
How does Truth relate to civility?
Connections
Tolstoy Packet/Response
PowerPoint
RWSL:1.3.11;1.4.11
1.5.11;1.8.11
WL:2.1.11
April 25-29
Tolstoy: God Sees the Truth, but Waits, Alyosha the Pot, Love, and Prisoner of the Caucuses
Tragic hero; free will vs. fate; motivation; divine right; When do virtues become vices?
Bunin: Light Breathing Kafka: Metamorphosis synopsis, and selected short stories
Tragic hero; free will vs. fate; motivation; divine right of kings When does Ambition cease to be a virtue?
Extrapolation Project Presentations
RWSL:1.3.11;1.5.11;1.8.11
H:8.4.11
WL:2.1.11
May 9-13
Isolation/Social Awareness and Responsibility/Boundaries Mindfulness and Vantage Points What kind of behaviors can exist under the surface of civilized and cultured politeness?
How does Truth relate to civility?
Connections
Lecture tests Friedemann Literary Criticism Text
RWSL:1.3.11;1.6.11
AH:9.1.11
H:8.4.11
WL:4.2.11
May 16-20
Thomas Mann Little Herr Friedemann; Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
Philosophical Influences in Literature; Identifying contextual influences Connections
Synopsis and PowerPoint Comparative Analysis
Response/Discussion
H:8.4.11
WL:2.1.11;4.2.11
Pushkin: The Undertaker; Queen of Spades; The Duel; Ruslan and Ludmila...et.al.
Gogol: Overcoat
Chekhov: The Bet; The Grasshopper; The Darling
Isolation/Social Awareness and Responsibility/Boundaries
Mindfulness and Vantage Points
What kind of behaviors can exist under the surface of civilized and cultured politeness?
How does Truth relate to civility?
Connections
PowerPoint
1.5.11;1.8.11
WL:2.1.11
Kafka Packet/Response
PowerPoint
H:8.4.11
WL:2.1.11;4.2.11
Kafka: Metamorphosis synopsis, and selected short stories
When does Ambition cease to be a virtue?
Presentations
H:8.4.11
WL:2.1.11
Mindfulness and Vantage Points
What kind of behaviors can exist under the surface of civilized and cultured politeness?
How does Truth relate to civility?
Connections
Friedemann
Literary Criticism Text
AH:9.1.11
H:8.4.11
WL:4.2.11
Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
Connections
H:8.4.11
WL:2.1.11;4.2.11
Connection Map
Learned Response
Quote Response
Connection Map; What I've Learned Response; Quote Response